Poll: Best Multi-Player Board Game of All Time

[mutepointe]

You folks are just making stuff up now.

[Doug_Tipple]

Board games seem like anceint history, and I'm sorry abut that.

[emmline]

Board games seem like anceint history, and I'm sorry abut that.

To an extent. We experienced the heyday.
My kids' generation does play such things (usually newer ones,) when they get together with cousins
during beach week and so on. (names I can think of...A Rhyme in Time, Scattergories...)
btw, in trying to remember the names of games they play I encountered the game Settlers of Catan
in at least 5 formats, so I know it exists.

[I.D.10-t]

Is cribbage a board game? I have also played hearts on a board on two saw horses, does that make it qualify?

Balderdash was a fun multi-player game.

[Innocent Bystander]

Cribbage is a card game. Card Games are not board games. Very few people play three-handed Cribbage.

I've heard Settlers of Catan is a good game. Maybe I'll get to play it one day.

Where I live, in Buckinghamshire, UK, local people have produced a couple of board-games. I bought one called "Cut & Run" which bears a superficial resemblance to Monopoly, but is a simple gambling game. Once you acquire your three Casinos, you must cut and run - make one circuit of the board. You can be stopped in a number of ways. It's not a bad game.

[dwest]

Coup d'Etat, cutthroat but fun. Keep losing one of the daggers, find it, and lose it again.

[jsluder]

Scrabble. Risk would be a close 2nd.

[mutepointe]

We had Coup d'Etat. We chipped the point off one of the swords. It was never the same after that. I haven't seen it at my parents house lately.

[s1m0n]

Scrabble.

[fearfaoin]

You folks are just making stuff up now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Settlers_of_Catan

It's a little like Risk. Except that it doesn't suck.

[chris_coreline]

Settlers of Catan

this is a great game, espically if you want to create a friendly atmosphere of absolute hatred!
or if you quit fancey hearing somone shout 'does anyone have wood for my sheep'.

[highland-piper]

1830: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1830_(board_game)

What makes 1830 a great game is that there is no random element. No dice, spinners, or anything else. It's all just about how well you can out-think the other players, and what choices they make.

Another absolutely fantastic game for 4 players is Caesars of Alesia.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1430

That website says you can fininsh a game in 360 minutes, but I think double that is more like it. I still have Ceasars of Alesia, but I haven't had the box open in 20 years. Can't find three friends.

[Pammy]

Coup d'Etat, cutthroat but fun. Keep losing one of the daggers, find it, and lose it again.

You lot like this one because it has pictures of Pirates on the front. Go on admit it.
Any excuse!!

[Innocent Bystander]

Dems ain't Pirates, that is a Corsican Artillery crew.

[s1m0n]

Cribbage is a card game. Card Games are not board games. Very few people play three-handed Cribbage.:

*I* can play three handed cribbage, although it's years since I have. I can also play the great Ontario card game, Euchre. It's a bridge precursor not unlike Whist. It's still played in Ontario, some of the prairie states and provinces, and I believe some of Washington State. There are probably enough people from other parts of Canada here in any mixed crowd of adults in BC, but I dunno if it's played much. Probably at the Legion on a Saturday night in any small town, and in retirement homes all over.